The Sanger Centre is pleased to announce the availability of ACT - a
DNA sequence comparison viewer.
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Description
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ACT (Artemis Comparison Tool) is a DNA sequence comparison viewer
based on the Artemis sequence annotation tool. In common with
Artemis, ACT is written in Java and runs on UNIX, Macintosh and MS
Windows systems. It can read complete EMBL and GENBANK entries or
sequence in FASTA or raw format. The sequence comparison displayed
by ACT is usually the result of a blastn or tblastx search that has
been processed by MSPcrunch (for more information see
http://www.cgr.ki.se/cgr/groups/sonnhammer/MSPcrunch.html).
ACT distribution
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ACT is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License, and should run on any system with a recent version of Java,
but it is currently best supported on UNIX.
Further Information
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The ACT web pages contain documentation, download and installation
instructions:
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/ACT/
Some examples and screenshots can be found here:
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/ACT/Examples
For more information on Artemis see the Artemis web pages:
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/
Mailing list
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We welcome contributions to ACT and Artemis and suggestions for new
features. An email discussion list has been set up for this
purpose. To join, send a message to 'majordomo at sanger.ac.uk' with
'subscribe artemis' in the body (not the subject). Announcements
will also be sent to this list.
Acknowledgments
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The development of ACT and Artemis is funded by the Wellcome Trust's
Beowulf Genomics initiative, through its support of the Pathogen
Sequencing Unit.
